William Crosby Dawson

William Crosby Dawson (4 January 1798-5 May 1856) was a member of the US House of Representatives (W-GA) from 7 November 1836 to 13 November 1841, succeeding John E. Coffee and preceding Mark A. Cooper), and a US Senator from 4 March 1849 to 3 March 1855, succeeding Herschel V. Johnson and preceding Alfred Iverson, Sr..

Biography
William Crosby Dawson was born in Greensboro, Georgia in 1798, and he became a lawyer in 1818. He served in the state legislature and as a soldier in the Second Seminole War, and he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1836 to 1841 and in the US Senate from 1849 to 1855. He died in 1856.